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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmer%20Bringsjord | Selmer Bringsjord (born November 24, 1958) is the chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science. He also holds an appointment in the Lally School of Management & Technology and teaches artificial Intelligence (AI), formal logic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Nowak | Martin Andreas Nowak (born April 7, 1965) is an Austrian-born professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard University. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of mathematical biology. He made contributions to the theory of evolution, cooperation, virus dynamics, and cancer dynamics. Nowak held professorshi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint%20union%20%28topology%29 | In general topology and related areas of mathematics, the disjoint union (also called the direct sum, free union, free sum, topological sum, or coproduct) of a family of topological spaces is a space formed by equipping the disjoint union of the underlying sets with a natural topology called the disjoint union topolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic%20shielding | In electrical engineering, electromagnetic shielding is the practice of reducing or redirecting the electromagnetic field (EMF) in a space with barriers made of conductive or magnetic materials. It is typically applied to enclosures, for isolating electrical devices from their surroundings, and to cables to isolate wir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Genetics | The Journal of Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of genetics and evolution. It was established in 1910 by the British geneticists William Bateson and Reginald Punnett and is one of the oldest genetics journals. It was later edited by J.B.S. Haldane, who emigrated to India in 1957, and continue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Walden | Paul Walden (; ; ; 26 July 1863 – 22 January 1957) was a Russian, Latvian and German chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry. In particular he invented the stereochemical reaction known as Walden inversion and synthesized the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate.
Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20McGee | Harold James McGee (born October 3, 1951) is an American author who writes about the chemistry and history of food science and cooking. He is best known for his seminal book On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen first published in 1984 and revised in 2004.
Education
McGee was educated at the Calif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Jenkins | Cliff Jenkins (born ) is a former city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He represented Ward 25 which was one of the two Don Valley West wards, from 2003 to 2010.
Jenkins was born in Hamilton to a working-class family. He attended McMaster University on a scholarship, and graduated with an undergraduate mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Bruijn%20sequence | In combinatorial mathematics, a de Bruijn sequence of order n on a size-k alphabet A is a cyclic sequence in which every possible length-n string on A occurs exactly once as a substring (i.e., as a contiguous subsequence). Such a sequence is denoted by and has length , which is also the number of distinct strings of l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Cooley | James William Cooley (1926 – June 29, 2016) was an American mathematician. Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, an M.A. degree in 1951 from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a Ph.D. degree in 1961 in applied mathematics from Columbia University. He was a programmer on John von N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%20Mu%20Epsilon | Pi Mu Epsilon ( or ) is the U.S. honorary national mathematics society.
The society was founded at Syracuse University on , by Professor Edward Drake Roe, Jr, and currently has chapters at 371 institutions across the US.
Goals
Pi Mu Epsilon is dedicated to the promotion of mathematics and recognition of students who ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approach%20space | In topology, a branch of mathematics, approach spaces are a generalization of metric spaces, based on point-to-set distances, instead of point-to-point distances. They were introduced by Robert Lowen in 1989, in a series of papers on approach theory between 1988 and 1995.
Definition
Given a metric space (X, d), or mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydration%20reaction | In chemistry, a dehydration reaction is a chemical reaction that involves the loss of water from the reacting molecule or ion. Dehydration reactions are common processes, the reverse of a hydration reaction.
Dehydration reactions in organic chemistry
Esterification
The classic example of a dehydration reaction is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20honey%20bee | The Russian honeybee refers to honey bees (Apis mellifera) that originate in the Primorsky Krai region of Russia. This strain of bee was imported into the United States in 1997 by the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Honeybee Breeding, Genetics & Physiology Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in response to sever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derived%20set%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, more specifically in point-set topology, the derived set of a subset of a topological space is the set of all limit points of It is usually denoted by
The concept was first introduced by Georg Cantor in 1872 and he developed set theory in large part to study derived sets on the real line.
Definiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20arithmetic | Elementary arithmetic is a branch of mathematics involving basic numerical operations, namely addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Due to its low level of abstraction, broad range of application, and position as the foundation of all mathematics, elementary arithmetic is generally the first critical bra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma-ideal | In mathematics, particularly measure theory, a -ideal, or sigma ideal, of a σ-algebra (, read "sigma") is a subset with certain desirable closure properties. It is a special type of ideal. Its most frequent application is in probability theory.
Let be a measurable space (meaning is a -algebra of subsets of ). A sub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20F.%20Wieschaus | Eric Francis Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.
Early life
Born in South Bend, Indiana, he attended John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham, Alabama before attending the University of Notre Dame for his undergrad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 | In cryptography, PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1 and 2) are key derivation functions with a sliding computational cost, used to reduce vulnerability to brute-force attacks.
PBKDF2 is part of RSA Laboratories' Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) series, specifically PKCS#5 v2.0, also pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20class | In mathematics, the Todd class is a certain construction now considered a part of the theory in algebraic topology of characteristic classes. The Todd class of a vector bundle can be defined by means of the theory of Chern classes, and is encountered where Chern classes exist — most notably in differential topology, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-integer | In mathematics, a half-integer is a number of the form
where is a whole number. For example,
are all half-integers. The name "half-integer" is perhaps misleading, as the set may be misunderstood to include numbers such as 1 (being half the integer 2). A name such as "integer-plus-half" may be more accurate, but ev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Rothman | James Edward Rothman (born November 3, 1950) is an American biochemist. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University, the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Nanobiology Institute at the Yale West Campus. Rothman also concurre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Schekman | Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, former editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor of Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. In 2011, he was announced as the editor of eLife, a new h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian%20trick | In mathematics, the unitarian trick is a device in the representation theory of Lie groups, introduced by for the special linear group and by Hermann Weyl for general semisimple groups. It applies to show that the representation theory of some group G is in a qualitative way controlled by that of some other compact ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Hamer | Dean Hamer (; born May 29, 1951) is an American geneticist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for his research on the role of genetics in sexual orientation and for a series of popular books and documentaries that have changed the understanding and perceptions of human sexuality and gender identity.
Education and car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronese%20surface | In mathematics, the Veronese surface is an algebraic surface in five-dimensional projective space, and is realized by the Veronese embedding, the embedding of the projective plane given by the complete linear system of conics. It is named after Giuseppe Veronese (1854–1917). Its generalization to higher dimension is kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20electrodynamics | Stochastic electrodynamics (SED) is a variant of classical electrodynamics (CED) of theoretical physics. SED consists of a set of controversial theories that posit the existence of a classical Lorentz invariant radiation field having statistical properties similar to that of the electromagnetic zero-point field (ZPF) o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Simons%20%28academic%29 | Peter Murray Simons, (born 23 March 1950) is a British retired philosopher and academic. From 2009 to 2016, he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin; he is now professor emeritus. He is known for his work with Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith on metaphysics and the history of Austrian philosophy. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Colombo | The University of Colombo (informally Colombo University or UoC) is a public research university located primarily in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is the oldest institution of modern higher education in Sri Lanka. Specialised in the fields of natural, social, and applied sciences as well as mathematics, computer sciences, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20J.%20Harvey | Francis Joseph Harvey (born July 8, 1943) served as the nineteenth Secretary of the United States Army from November 19, 2004, to March 9, 2007.
Education and family
Francis J. Harvey II was born and raised in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University of Pen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Mathematicians%2C%20Physicists%20and%20Astronomers%20of%20Slovenia | The Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia (Slovene: Društvo matematikov, fizikov in astronomov Slovenije, DMFA) is the main Slovene society in the field of mathematics, physics and astronomy.
The Society is occupied with pedagogical activity and with the popularization of mathematics, recre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Irakliotis | Leo Irakliotis is a computer engineer. His early work was on optical information processing. With Leo Kadanoff he founded the Center for Presentation of Science at the University of Chicago, where he taught computer science from 1997 until 2009.
Irakliotis earned a master's degree in theoretical physics from Miami Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Kadanoff | Leo Philip Kadanoff (January 14, 1937 – October 26, 2015) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics (emeritus from 2004) at the University of Chicago and a former president of the American Physical Society (APS). He contributed to the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condense... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20chemistry | Mathematical chemistry is the area of research engaged in novel applications of mathematics to chemistry; it concerns itself principally with the mathematical modeling of chemical phenomena. Mathematical chemistry has also sometimes been called computer chemistry, but should not be confused with computational chemistry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl%20%CE%B2-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside}}
Isopropyl β--1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) is a molecular biology reagent. This compound is a molecular mimic of allolactose, a lactose metabolite that triggers transcription of the lac operon, and it is therefore used to induce protein expression where the gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3 | C3, C-3, C.3, C03, C.III or C-III may refer to:
Life and biology
C3 carbon fixation in plants
C3-convertase, an enzyme
Complement component 3, a protein of the innate immune system
Apolipoprotein C3, a human very low density lipoprotein
ATC code C03 Diuretics, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Cl... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural%20evolution | Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or social evolution are theories of sociobiology and cultural evolution that describe how societies and culture change over time. Whereas sociocultural development traces processes that tend to increase the complexity of a society or culture, sociocultural evolution a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal | Subliminal may refer to:
Subliminal stimuli, sensory stimuli below an individual's threshold for conscious perception
Subliminal channel, in cryptography, a covert channel that can be used over an insecure channel
Subliminal (rapper) (born 1979), Israeli rapper and producer
Subliminal (record label), an electronic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Mises | The Mises family or von Mises is the name of an Austrian noble family. Members of the family excelled especially in mathematics and economy.
Notable members
Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian-American economist of the Austrian School, older brother of Richard von Mises
Mises Institute, or the Ludwig von Mises Institute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Montroll | John Montroll is an American origami artist, author, teacher, and mathematician. He has written many books on origami, promoting the single-square, no-cut, no glue approach. Montroll taught mathematics at St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, D.C. from 1990 to 2021.
Biography
John Montroll was born in Washington, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion%20%28chemistry%29 | Conversion and its related terms yield and selectivity are important terms in chemical reaction engineering. They are described as ratios of how much of a reactant has reacted (X — conversion, normally between zero and one), how much of a desired product was formed (Y — yield, normally also between zero and one) and ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leachate | A leachate is any liquid that, in the course of passing through matter, extracts soluble or suspended solids, or any other component of the material through which it has passed.
Leachate is a widely used term in the environmental sciences where it has the specific meaning of a liquid that has dissolved or entrained en... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Bell%20%28programmer%29 | Ian Colin Graham Bell (born 31 October 1962 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire) programmed, designed and developed the computer game Elite (1984) with David Braben, which met with much acclaim.
Education
Bell attended the independent St Albans School. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree (1st) in M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20fourth%20problem | In mathematics, Hilbert's fourth problem in the 1900 list of Hilbert's problems is a foundational question in geometry. In one statement derived from the original, it was to find — up to an isomorphism — all geometries that have an axiomatic system of the classical geometry (Euclidean, hyperbolic and elliptic), with t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldson%20Brown | Frank Donaldson Brown (February 1, 1885 – October 2, 1965) was a financial executive and corporate director with both DuPont and General Motors Corporation. He is the originator of DuPont analysis, a widely used technique in finance.
He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1902 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%20O.%20Smith | Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931) is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.
Smith graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but in 1950 transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile%20blue | Nile blue (or Nile blue A) is a stain used in biology and histology. It may be used with live or fixed cells, and imparts a blue colour to cell nuclei.
It may also be used in conjunction with fluorescence microscopy to stain for the presence of polyhydroxybutyrate granules in prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells. Boiling a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TST | TST may stand for:
Science and technology
Ternary search tree, in computer science
Transition state theory, of chemical reaction rates
TST (gene)
Tuberculin skin test
Tectonic strain theory
Total sleep time
Total station theodolite
Typed set theory, in mathematical logic
Transgressive systems tract, in sequence strati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimesis%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, mimesis is the quality of a numerical method which imitates some properties of the continuum problem. The goal of numerical analysis is to approximate the continuum, so instead of solving a partial differential equation one aims to solve a discrete version of the continuum problem. Properties of the con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerant | Accelerants are substances that can bond, mix or disturb another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural, or artificial chemical process. Accelerants play a major role in chemistry—most chemical reactions can be hastened with an accelerant. Accelerants alter a chemical bond, speed up a chemical proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear%20modulus | In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is a measure of the elastic shear stiffness of a material and is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain:
where
= shear stress
is the force which acts
is the area on which the force acts
= shear strain.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond%20H%C3%A9bert | Edmond Hébert (12 June 18124 April 1890), French geologist, was born at Villefargau, Yonne.
He was educated at the College de Meaux, Auxerre, and at the École Normale in Paris. In 1836 he became professor at Meaux, in 1838 demonstrator in chemistry and physics at the École Normale, and in 1841 sub-director of studies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensate | Condensate may refer to:
The liquid phase produced by the condensation of steam or any other gas
The product of a chemical condensation reaction, other than water
Natural-gas condensate, in the natural gas industry
Condensate (album), a 2011 album by The Original 7ven, the band formerly known as The Time
Quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Seymour%20%28mathematician%29 | Paul D. Seymour (born 26 July 1950) is a British mathematician known for his work in discrete mathematics, especially graph theory. He (with others) was responsible for important progress on regular matroids and totally unimodular matrices, the four colour theorem, linkless embeddings, graph minors and structure, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series%20expansion | In mathematics, a series expansion is a technique that expresses a function as an infinite sum, or series, of simpler functions. It is a method for calculating a function that cannot be expressed by just elementary operators (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
The resulting so-called series often can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20partial%20differential%20equation | In mathematics, a hyperbolic partial differential equation of order is a partial differential equation (PDE) that, roughly speaking, has a well-posed initial value problem for the first derivatives. More precisely, the Cauchy problem can be locally solved for arbitrary initial data along any non-characteristic hypers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variadic%20function | In mathematics and in computer programming, a variadic function is a function of indefinite arity, i.e., one which accepts a variable number of arguments. Support for variadic functions differs widely among programming languages.
The term variadic is a neologism, dating back to 1936–1937. The term was not widely used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidence%20geometry | In mathematics, incidence geometry is the study of incidence structures. A geometric structure such as the Euclidean plane is a complicated object that involves concepts such as length, angles, continuity, betweenness, and incidence. An incidence structure is what is obtained when all other concepts are removed and all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamenta%20Mathematicae | Fundamenta Mathematicae is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics with a special focus on the foundations of mathematics, concentrating on set theory, mathematical logic, topology and its interactions with algebra, and dynamical systems.
The first specialized journal in the field of mathematics, originally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placodus | Placodus (meaning 'flat tooth') was a genus of marine reptiles belonging to the order Placodontia, which swam in the shallow seas of the middle Triassic period (c. 240 million years ago). Fossils of Placodus have been found in Central Europe (Germany, France, Poland) and China.
Palaeobiology
Placodus had a stocky ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofinal | Cofinal may refer to:
Cofinal (mathematics), the property of a subset B of a preordered set A such that for every element of A there is a "larger element" in B
Cofinality (mathematics), the least cardinality of a cofinal subset in this sense
Cofinal (music), a part of some Gregorian chants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20asymmetric%20encryption%20padding | In cryptography, Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) is a padding scheme often used together with RSA encryption. OAEP was introduced by Bellare and Rogaway, and subsequently standardized in PKCS#1 v2 and RFC 2437.
The OAEP algorithm is a form of Feistel network which uses a pair of random oracles G and H to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade%20Volcanoes | The Decade Volcanoes are 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to densely populated areas. The Decade Volcanoes project encourages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20First | Physics First is an educational program in the United States, that teaches a basic physics course in the ninth grade (usually 14-year-olds), rather than the biology course which is more standard in public schools. This course relies on the limited math skills that the students have from pre-algebra and algebra I. With... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant%20mutex | In computer science, the reentrant mutex (recursive mutex, recursive lock) is a particular type of mutual exclusion (mutex) device that may be locked multiple times by the same process/thread, without causing a deadlock.
While any attempt to perform the "lock" operation on an ordinary mutex (lock) would either fail or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20function | In mathematics, generalized functions are objects extending the notion of functions. There is more than one recognized theory, for example the theory of distributions. Generalized functions are especially useful in making discontinuous functions more like smooth functions, and describing discrete physical phenomena su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raju%20Ban%20Gaya%20Gentleman | Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman () is a 1992 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Aziz Mirza starring Shah Rukh Khan, Amrita Singh, Juhi Chawla and Nana Patekar. Khan plays Raju, a young Diploma Holder in Civil Engineering from Darjeeling who comes to Bombay hoping to become a successful engineer. The f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECG | In cryptography, the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG) is an international consortium founded by Certicom in 1998. The group exists to develop commercial standards for efficient and interoperable cryptography based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC).
Links and documents
SECG home page
SEC 1: Ellipt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20T.%20Gross | William T. Gross (born 1958) is an American businessman.
Early life
Gross grew up in Encino, California and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Career
He founded GNP Loudspeakers (now GNP Audio Video), an audio equipment manufacturer; Starship ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%ABl%C4%81vat%C4%AB | Līlāvatī is Indian mathematician Bhāskara II's treatise on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya.
Name
His book on arithmetic is the source of interesting legends that assert that it was written f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich%20algorithm | In computer science, the ostrich algorithm is a strategy of ignoring potential problems on the basis that they may be exceedingly rare. It is named after the ostrich effect which is defined as "to stick one's head in the sand and pretend there is no problem". It is used when it is more cost-effective to allow the probl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Herman%20Pfund | August Herman Pfund (December 28, 1879 – January 4, 1949) was an American physicist, spectroscopist, and inventor.
Early life
Pfund was born in Madison, Wisconsin and attended Wisconsin public schools until his entry into the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a B.S. degree in physics and studied under R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20S.%20Wagstaff%20Jr. | Samuel Standfield Wagstaff Jr. (born 21 February 1945) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, whose research interests are in the areas of cryptography, parallel computation, and analysis of algorithms, especially number theoretic algorithms. He is currently a professor of computer science and mathematics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nios%20II | Nios II is a 32-bit embedded processor architecture designed specifically for the Altera family of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) integrated circuits. Nios II incorporates many enhancements over the original Nios architecture, making it more suitable for a wider range of embedded computing applications, from digi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASU%20Institute%20of%20Electrodynamics | NASU Institute of Electrodynamics (IED) () is a Ukraine leading science institution in field of electrical engineering, thermal power (heat energy), and research of electrodynamics located in Kyiv, Ukraine as a part of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. It is well known for the prominent achievements in the field of co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C10-Phenanthroline | 1,10-Phenanthroline (phen) is a heterocyclic organic compound. It is a white solid that is soluble in organic solvents. The 1,10 refer to the location of the nitrogen atoms that replace CH's in the hydrocarbon called phenanthrene.
Abbreviated "phen", it is used as a ligand in coordination chemistry, forming strong co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physical%20Chemistry%20of%20the%20Polish%20Academy%20of%20Sciences | The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish Instytut Chemii Fizycznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk) is one of numerous institutes belonging to the Polish Academy of Sciences. As its name suggests, the institute's primary research interests are in the field of physical chemistry. The institut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass%20factorization%20theorem | In mathematics, and particularly in the field of complex analysis, the Weierstrass factorization theorem asserts that every entire function can be represented as a (possibly infinite) product involving its zeroes. The theorem may be viewed as an extension of the fundamental theorem of algebra, which asserts that every... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20symmetrizer | In mathematics, a Young symmetrizer is an element of the group algebra of the symmetric group, constructed in such a way that, for the homomorphism from the group algebra to the endomorphisms of a vector space obtained from the action of on by permutation of indices, the image of the endomorphism determined by that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Xavier%20de%20Feller | François-Xavier de Feller (18 August 1735 – 23 May 1802) was a Belgian author.
Biography
He was born in Brussels. In 1752 he entered a school of the Jesuits at Reims, where he manifested a great aptitude for mathematics and physical science. He commenced his novitiate two years afterwards, and in testimony of his admi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessin%20d%27enfant | In mathematics, a dessin d'enfant is a type of graph embedding used to study Riemann surfaces and to provide combinatorial invariants for the action of the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers. The name of these embeddings is French for a "child's drawing"; its plural is either dessins d'enfant, "child's drawi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20processing%20unit | A physics processing unit (PPU) is a dedicated microprocessor designed to handle the calculations of physics, especially in the physics engine of video games. It is an example of hardware acceleration.
Examples of calculations involving a PPU might include rigid body dynamics, soft body dynamics, collision detection, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary%20Scintillation%20Array | The Interplanetary Scintillation Array (also known as the IPS Array or Pulsar Array) is a radio telescope that was built in 1967 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and was operated by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group. The instrument originally covered 4 acres (16,000 m²). It was e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Causes%20of%20Evolution | The Causes of Evolution is a 1932 book on evolution by J.B.S. Haldane (1990 edition ), based on a series of January 1931 lectures entitled "A Re-examination of Darwinism". It was influential in the founding of population genetics and the modern synthesis.
Chapters
It contains the following chapters:
Introduction
Var... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet%20filter | In mathematics, the Fréchet filter, also called the cofinite filter, on a set is a certain collection of subsets of (that is, it is a particular subset of the power set of ).
A subset of belongs to the Fréchet filter if and only if the complement of in is finite.
Any such set is said to be , which is why it is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben%20Goodstein | Reuben Louis Goodstein (15 December 1912 – 8 March 1985) was an English mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics.
Education
Goodstein was educated at St Paul's School in London. He received his Master's degree from Magdalene College, Cambridge. After this, he worked at the Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai%20Ben-Ari | Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari () is a professor emeritus of computer science education at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Ben-Ari has published numerous textbooks in computer science, developed software tools for teaching computer science, and written influential papers in computer science education. His primary focus h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johny%20Joseph%20%28civil%20servant%29 | Johny Joseph (born 29 May 1949) is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1972 batch. He graduated from Trivandrum Engineering College with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and served as commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation from 29 February 2004 to May 2007.
Work
Johny Joseph was the Maharashtra'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%C3%A9%20g-factor | In physics, the Landé g-factor is a particular example of a g-factor, namely for an electron with both spin and orbital angular momenta. It is named after Alfred Landé, who first described it in 1921.
In atomic physics, the Landé g-factor is a multiplicative term appearing in the expression for the energy levels of an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20in%20Mendelian%20Populations | "Evolution in Mendelian Populations" is a lengthy 1931 scientific paper on evolution by the American population geneticist Sewall Wright.
The paper was first published in Genetics volume 16, pages 97–159. In it, Wright outlines various concepts, including genetic drift, effective population size, and inbreeding.
A c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal%20Koblitz | Neal I. Koblitz (born December 24, 1948) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the independent co-creator of elliptic curv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yun%20Wang | Yun Wang (born 1964) is a poet and cosmologist. She is originally from Gaoping, a small town near Zunyi, in Guizhou Province, China.
Professional work in astrophysics
Yun Wang received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, after which she came to the United States and obtained her master... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimodality | In mathematics, unimodality means possessing a unique mode. More generally, unimodality means there is only a single highest value, somehow defined, of some mathematical object.
Unimodal probability distribution
In statistics, a unimodal probability distribution or unimodal distribution is a probability distribution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Occhialini | Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS (; 5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993) was an Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947 with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell, the latter winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. At the time of this discovery... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Alves | Michelle Kristine da Silva Alves (born September 19, 1978) is a Brazilian model.
Biography
She was born in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, as the daughter of a lawyer (mother) and an engineer (father). Alves was a student in civil engineering at Brazil's Londrina State University prior to moving to São Paulo, where she pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Perry | Geoffrey E. Perry MBE (4 August 1927, Braintree, Essex – 18 January 2000, Bude) was a physics teacher at Kettering Grammar School, Northamptonshire, England who, together with his colleague Derek Slater, and students, deduced the existence of the previously-secret Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 1966 by analyzing the orbit of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the restriction of a function is a new function, denoted or obtained by choosing a smaller domain for the original function
The function is then said to extend
Formal definition
Let be a function from a set to a set If a set is a subset of then the restriction of to is the function
giv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Light%20%28novel%29 | White Light is a work of science fiction by Rudy Rucker published in 1980 by Virgin Books in the UK and Ace Books in the US. It was written while Rucker was teaching mathematics at the University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980, at roughly the same time he was working on the non-fiction book Infinity and the Mind.
On ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinian%20model | In mathematics, a Kleinian model is a model of a three-dimensional hyperbolic manifold N by the quotient space where is a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,C). Here, the subgroup , a Kleinian group, is defined so that it is isomorphic to the fundamental group of the surface N. Many authors use the terms Kleinian group and... |
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